love-in-idleness

British  

noun

1. another name for the wild pansy

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Example Sentences

But during the day which followed Geoffrey's conscience awoke and reproached him for this love-in-idleness, and as the evening of that day drew near his higher self conquered.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John

"It would serve you right," said she, truculently, "if some one were to rub your eyes with love-in-idleness, to make you dote upon the next live creature that you see."

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

English is all Puck's fairy lore, the cowslips tall, the red-hipt humble-bee, Oberon's bank, the pansy love-in-idleness, and all the lovely imagery of the verse.

From Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess by McMahan, Anna Benneson

Four lovers, two young Athenians of high birth and their sweethearts, are almost inextricably tangled by careless Robin Goodfellow, who has dropped the juice of love-in-idleness upon the eyes of the wrong lovers.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.

Apple, crab, chestnut, cypress, hazel, oats, onion, love-in-idleness, mustard, parsley, roses, rush, sedges, walnut.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson